Aptavani-4
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Questioner: How can we get rid of such restlessness
(chanchalata)?
Dadashri: After attaining Gnan, there is no need for You
to get rid of restlessness, is there? You (the Self) just have to keep
‘seeing.’ I have given you this Gnan, so You have to keep ‘seeing’
what the restlessness does. However, others (without Gnan)
become involved with the mind. They dance along with their
minds. Hey! Why don’t You just keep ‘seeing’ it as it dances? But
no, you dance along with it. You join in with its dance when you
have a pleasant thought, and when you have a bad thought, you
fight with it by saying, “Why did you come?” When you have a
bad thought, You will know that the mind is bad, and that is why
the thoughts are also bad. When bad thoughts arise, then
depression occurs. And when good thoughts arise, there is
elevation. I am trying to prepare You in such a way, that no one
in the world can depress you. On the contrary, the one who
comes to depress you, will himself go back feeling depressed.
Questioner: Is this stillness like the state of dreamless
sleep (shushupti)?
Dadashri: There is nothing like stillness. Do we not stop
the engine to cool it down when it gets hot? That is how it
remains non-active during deep sleep. The mind gets heated all
day and then it stops. Sleep cools down all the ‘machinery’.
Questioner: Is the desire to attain Gnan considered
awareness of the Self?
Dadashri: That is called the coming together of
circumstances for the awareness of the Self. First, the desire to
attain the knowledge of the Self arises; that is one circumstance
in itself, then comes the encounter with the Gnani Purush. Your
work can only be done when the circumstance (saiyog) to attain
the knowledge of the Self arises, however, it is all dependent
upon ‘scientific circumstantial evidences’.